1. Why did John Smith leave Fort James after a few months?
Answer: He wanted to trade trinkets with Indians for food
2. What was the name of the local Native tribe and their chief?
Answer: Powhatan
3. What did Pocahontas do to help John Smith?
Answer: According to Smith, she "hazarded the beating out of her own brains" to save him, ie. she saved Smith's life by covered his head with her own, to prevent the Indian warriors from executing Smith.
4. What ended up happening to Pocahontas?
Answer: Sad ending. She married John Rolfe (the man who figured out that Jamestown could only survive if it produced something valuable to Europeans, namely tobacco). Rolfe and she travelled to England with their young son; Pocahontas got very sick and died in England.
5. Why was trading with Pocahontas's tribe not enough?
Answer: They didn't provide enough food for the colonists
6. Explain two reasons why John Smith's travels up and down the rivers of present-day Virginia were so helpful.
Possible Answers: He mapped out all the local rivers and tributaries, his maps were so good they were used for 200 years by Americans. Smith also traded or wrestled for more food for the Jamestown colonists and made friends with Indians.
7. Why do you think Smith recorded lovely words about this area of N. America?
Possible answers: To entice more Englishmen to come to live in Jamestown as colonists, to sell books, because it was/is true.
8. What was John Smith's maxim while he was president of Jamestown?
Answer: If you don't work, you won't eat.
9. Why did John Smith have to leave Jamestown?
Answer: Either by accident, or by an enemy, Smith's gunpowder horn exploded and he was so badly hurt that only medical help in England could save him. He was sent back to save his life.
10. What do you think is the most important legacy of John Smith?
Many possible answers: He made friends with Indians and got them to respect the English, so Indians didn't annihilate the English colony. He kept the colonists alive while he was president by making all colonists, even the rich aristocrats, to work. Smith popularized N. America for other Englishmen which drew large amounts of English colonists to these shores... he even named the northern part of present day CT, RI, MA, etc. New England. We still use that name for it today.
John Smith Part 2 DOL Answers:
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1. Why did John Smith leave Fort James after a few months?
Answer: He wanted to trade trinkets with Indians for food
2. What was the name of the local Native tribe and their chief?
Answer: Powhatan
3. What did Pocahontas do to help John Smith?
Answer: According to Smith, she "hazarded the beating out of her own brains" to save him, ie. she saved Smith's life by covered his head with her own, to prevent the Indian warriors from executing Smith.
4. What ended up happening to Pocahontas?
Answer: Sad ending. She married John Rolfe (the man who figured out that Jamestown could only survive if it produced something valuable to Europeans, namely tobacco). Rolfe and she travelled to England with their young son; Pocahontas got very sick and died in England.
5. Why was trading with Pocahontas's tribe not enough?
Answer: They didn't provide enough food for the colonists
6. Explain two reasons why John Smith's travels up and down the rivers of present-day Virginia were so helpful.
Possible Answers: He mapped out all the local rivers and tributaries, his maps were so good they were used for 200 years by Americans. Smith also traded or wrestled for more food for the Jamestown colonists and made friends with Indians.
7. Why do you think Smith recorded lovely words about this area of N. America?
Possible answers: To entice more Englishmen to come to live in Jamestown as colonists, to sell books, because it was/is true.
8. What was John Smith's maxim while he was president of Jamestown?
Answer: If you don't work, you won't eat.
9. Why did John Smith have to leave Jamestown?
Answer: Either by accident, or by an enemy, Smith's gunpowder horn exploded and he was so badly hurt that only medical help in England could save him. He was sent back to save his life.
10. What do you think is the most important legacy of John Smith?
Many possible answers: He made friends with Indians and got them to respect the English, so Indians didn't annihilate the English colony. He kept the colonists alive while he was president by making all colonists, even the rich aristocrats, to work. Smith popularized N. America for other Englishmen which drew large amounts of English colonists to these shores... he even named the northern part of present day CT, RI, MA, etc. New England. We still use that name for it today.